If you could own one baseball card, what would it be?

[oldjudge]

Ken-Great choice. I like the Grand Match ticket with father and son even more:

[CW]

Some jaw dropping pieces in this thread.

Also, nice to see Clint get his dream card! Congrats, Clint, and it's cool that you helped to make it happen, Jay!

[triwak]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Ken-Great choice. I like the Grand Match ticket with father and son even more:

+1

[brian1961]

I've been a card collector off and on since 1961; mostly on. I've seen a lot of fabulous cards in person, and read a great deal about many other beautiful scarcities and rarites. Honestly, I am very privileged to actually own that one baseball card I most desired---the 1953 Stahl-Meyer Franks Mickey Mantle in PSA MINT 9 condition. As far as posting a photo, I staged a beautiful, artistic arrangement of that one for my book on immediate post-war regional / food issues, Never Cheaper By the Dozen. Unfortunately, there's well over 1,000 KB in the book photo, well surpassing the maximum allowed here on Net54baseball.com. --- Brian Powell

[Bigdaddy]

In college, we used to play a game sorta like this, except instead of baseball cards it was girls. That you'd drop whatever (or whoever) you were doing (or seeing) and follow them out the door, no questions asked and no looking back. Jennifer Aniston's name popped up a lot with us guys.

Anyway, pretty predictable for me here as far as cards. The top of my list has to be a Wags, in any shape but 'A'.

As far as a card that I'd actually aspire to and maybe own one day, I'd say a '52 Mantle, 5-6ish. Closely followed by a WaJo portrait or a CJ Jackson, in decent shape. Maybe one day. Gotta get these kids through college first though.

[T205Cub]

Tough for me to answer, but taking the most expensive and legendary card like the T206 Wagner would be the obvious choice, especially since the tobacco era stuff is my favorite.

Though honestly I would get more enjoyment from a nice collection of really cool stuff instead of one big card.

Though if I had the Wagner, maybe I would sell it and grab some other stuff like a complete 1933 Goudey set, 1915 Sporting News Ruth, Cracker Jack Cobb, 1934 Goudey Gehrig #61, 1952 Topps Mantle, etc. You get the idea, but those are some definite candidates.